Opening ceremony – outstanding!
How many times did you say ‘wow!’?
Firstly, apologies guys, this one beats all previous openings. How will the Brits beat that in 2012?
What would you have produced with the sort of financial plan used in that wonderful opening ceremony? The budget just for the fireworks alone would be sufficient for most special effects teams in Hollywood. Whoever wrote the script, did the pre-production, produced the event which needed no editing should be able to seek easy employment in California.
Disney couldn’t mix with those heart strings any more than this show. It read like a great script with all the good guys winning, as always, at the end, as predictable as any L.A. produced and financed main movie.
Doesn’t it bring a small tear to your eye when they light that flame? Doesn’t it make you feel good? Over two hundred countries playing together for honours that will last forever, just like those academy awards. There are large studio players with hundreds of athletes to the indies with less than a handful, all competing together. Sounds familiar?
Athletes; no cheating please. Good luck and accomplish your best.
China: sort out your human rights please. The world is watching. Impress. You’ve had an immense start and we want you to do well. We do wish you well. We may call more for our own teams as the games get going, but we’ll cheer on people from countries we may not have even heard of before.
On your marks, get set, you know the rest
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September 19th, 2008 at 8:44 am
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